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Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: Knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate any provision of this policy.

Allowing another student to copy one’s work.

Having another person take an exam or complete an assignment for oneself.

Taking an exam or completing an assignment for another student.

Plagiarism: Representing the words, research findings or ideas of another person as your own in any academic exercise. [At their discretion, faculty may submit student work to plagiarism–detection software, such as Turnitin for review without prior notice to students.]

Copying word for word without proper attribution.

Paraphrasing without proper attribution.

Using phrases from another source embedded into original material without proper attribution.

Copying of intellectual property without proper attribution.

Misrepresentation of Academic Records: Misrepresenting, tampering with or attempting to tamper with any university academic document, either before or after coming to Chapman University.

Creating or altering a Chapman University transcript, diploma, verification of enrollment or any other official university document (In this case the student(s) may also face prosecution for violation of Federal and State statutes).

Submitting false records or other documents such as transcripts from another institution.

Failure to report all previous academic work at the time of admission.

Failure to report all academic work attempted at other institutions after admission to the university.

Failing to observe rules of academic integrity established by a faculty member for a particular course.

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Academic Integrity in Research

Chapman University students are expected to adhere to standards of ethics and integrity in research and scholarship. Misconduct in research includes fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or other practices that deviate significantly from those that are commonly accepted within the scholarly, creative and scientific community for proposing, conducting or reviewing research or in reporting research results. Key examples of such misconduct are listed below:

Plagiarism:

Taking credit for someone else’s work and ideas, stealing others’ results or methods, copying the writing of others without acknowledgment or otherwise taking credit falsely.

Taking or releasing the data of others which were given in the expectation of confidentiality, e.g., appropriating ideas from submitted grant or contract proposals, or manuscripts for publication when one is a reviewer for granting agencies or journals.

Falsification of Data:

Dishonesty in reporting results, ranging from fabrication of data, improper recording of data, negligence in collecting or analyzing data, to selective reporting or omission of conflicting data.